Sentences with phrase «as constitutive»

The images challenge the notion of how to make a line or create a new posture for flattened space or abstract composition, swivelling from geometry to gesture, propelling representation and language into abstraction, exploring pictorial edges and boundaries as well as the constitutive or disruptive role of blank space,.

Ringholt repositions the spectator to consider other bodies and even the wider space reflected in the margins of the work as constitutive of his / her identity, precipitating a confrontation that arouses an inexplicable enjoyment.

Chronic inflammation, sometimes referred to as constitutive inflammation, other times as inflammaging, can persist over an extended period of weeks to months and even years.

Categorized as constitutive or inducible (and functioning either generally or specific to certain tissues), promoters enable either continuous (constitutive) or transient (inducible) transcription of a specific gene (9).

Furthermore, at least in much of the Jewish scriptures, the relation to the land was also experienced as constitutive of the people's lives.

However, this is not merely a matter of choosing the right external clothing for the feeling, since the concrete description of our experiences requires that we include the symbolic elements as constitutive for the experience.

Rational reduction, which Duméry uses to dissipate the reality of the Trinity as constitutive of the being of God, dissipates in the same manner the trinitarian events which constitute the economy and the design of salvation, the actions of sacred history.

Indeed, in this sense transcendence may be taken as a constitutive characteristic of all human religions.

A prehension whose datum is included as a constitutive aspect of the occasion is a positive prehension; one in which the datum is eliminated from feeling is called a negative prehension.

This means that the theory of mental acting as constitutive of a distinct and separate mental or psychical existent is untenable; mental acting must be seen as a factor or ingredient in the total physical existent — which was Whitehead's doctrine in conceiving the mental as one «pole» of an actual entity.11

The accent of my remark was on symmetrical internal relatedness such as we find in F. H. Bradley in contrast with Whitehead's asymmetrical relations which are internal to (as constitutive of) the prehending subject only, being external to the prehended datum.

Because of his emphasis on internal relations as constitutive of all individual entities in the universe, Whitehead is the ecological philosopher par excellence.

The orienting term as a constitutive factor of the dynamic tendency, is immanent in it, but precisely because it is above it and differentiates the dynamism from itself as not its own.

i) the relationships of any eternal object A, considered as constitutive of A, merely involve other eternal objects as bare relata without reference to their individual essences, and

By failing to see the place of mind in nature as well as nature in mind, modern philosophy has been unable to put forth an adequate account of the relation between the two, one which would assign to each its due importance as a constitutive element in our experience and in existence as such.

Thus whereas in the first case there is a general failing to give nature, as the realm of finitude, contingency, chance and decay, its due place as a condition of mind as well as a constitutive element in the general scheme of things, in the second case there is an equally important failure to account for the origins of the unity of rational mind in nature.

From James in particular, Whitehead borrowed the generalized notion of «experience» as pervasive and as constitutive of all entities, characterized chiefly by vague and preconscious feelings of causal connectedness and mutual influence among the neutral entities.

They are rather disclosed as constitutive factors in the nature of the real.25 Thus, the paradigmatic happening which governs the distinctively Christian vision of God prohibits us from perceiving God as a self - contained, immutable Absolute.

On this reading logical distinctions and orderings are human artifices, not to be identified as constitutive of the world as on the mathematical model described by Dewey for traditional metaphysics (PANW / 657).

Scripture is the primary source and guideline «as the constitutive witness to biblical wellsprings of our faith,» but tradition, experience and reason also function as sources and guidelines, and in practice «theological reflection may find its point of departure» in any of them.

They touch God immanently because they are really a part of God as constitutive elements of that nature.

As we have said, Balthasar saw the Church as a constitutive part of the Incarnation.

Not exact matches

Or, as Luther put it in his lectures on Psalm 2 from the beginning of the 1530s, what is constitutive of the gospel is the identity of the one to whom it points:

For Whitehead, as for Thomas, the relation of God to the world is a real, or constitutive relation.

As such being - known - by - mind is a relationship constitutive and causative of a creaturely thing.

It is at best a prolegomenon which seeks to suggest an element in the ministry of Jesus that gives it a constitutive as distinct from an exemplary character, that makes it the supreme action of all history (action that is fully and entirely human, yet unique), action which crowns a ministry in which the ambiguities of human life are progressively articulated, being action in which their burden is endured à l'outrance.

As political issues carve a toehold in public discourse, they become constitutive elements of the American experience.

In it, enduring substances are reinterpreted as «events,» and the previously dominant qualities are superseded by constitutive relations.

But a second mode of revolutionary thinking also found a foundational presence in Whitehead's «exercise» in «imaginative thought,» 2 namely, the emphasis on relations as internal to and constitutive of all that becomes and is, including the very reality of God.

And so for Balthasar the Church flows from the seriousness of the Incarnation and Christ's life as a human being.4 The Church, therefore, is a constitutive part of the divine initiative and not a consequence of it.

The shadow is passing into the fact, so as to be constitutive of it; and yet the fact is prior to the shadow.

Taking Leopold's land ethic as paradigmatic for environmental ethics as such, Callicott insists that «environmental ethics locates ultimate value in the «biotic community» and assigns differential moral value to the constitutive individuals relative to that standard» (AL 337).

This means that Cantor's «mathematical paradise» should be understood as follows: Let there be a mathematical universe such that sets constitutive of it have the defining feature that a part of the set is equal to the whole of the set.

We, however, have also argued that there is another kind of actual occasion, though at the same scale as quantum events, responding to the elemental and fundamental beats, musical lures, basic rhythms constitutive of cosmic order; in time, we believe that new sciences, such as chronobiology, will shed light on this process.

For the Christian this same constitutive function is exercised by the teaching, life and death of Jesus Christ, and by the affirmations about Jesus made by his disciples as a result of their Easter experiences.

As one studies the constitutive elements of a classical eucharistic prayer, for example; Christian doctrine, church history and one's knowledge of people are fused.

Conversely, theology can only be ontology, in the sense that its constitutive concept «God» necessarily requires that the implied distinction / correlation between God and the world be identical with that involved in «reality as such.»

Thus for the Jew the events of the Exodus and its interpretation as a covenant between God and Israel were given a constitutive function in the development and understanding of Jewish faith.

By «metaphysics in the strict sense,» one properly means metaphysica generalis, or ontology, although from the standpoint of a neoclassical theism there can be no adequate distinction between ontology, on the one hand, and theology and cosmology, as disciplines of metaphysica specialis, on the other.1 From this standpoint, ontology is also theology in the sense that its constitutive concept «reality as such» necessarily involves the distinction / correlation between the one necessarily existing individual and the many contingently existing individuals and events.

I believe that one of the best routes to the center of Whitehead's perspective is to view his metaphysics as an elaboration of a basic value assumption in which the primacy of process and the ultimacy of constitutive relations reflect a drive in the universe toward the evocation of greater complexity, deeper intensity, and wider range of contrasts within the organic unity of an individual or society.

I mean to assert that my conscious experience, the experience constitutive of me as a conscious ego, is the experience of the actual entities constitutive of the personally ordered regnant society which dominates my brain and my whole animal organism.

It is, moreover, an activity that remains within and is constitutive of the subject — though it is not, as with Whitehead, a process of self - creation.

Wherever the Spirit of Christ, which as the eschatological gift anticipates God's new creation in history, is present in its ecclesially constitutive activity, there is the church.

Is it not time to acknowledge that contributing to human flourishing, exemplifying Christ as the telos of humanity, is not just a humanistic nicety, but constitutive of the very gospel we proclaim?

Some of our traditions reckon baptism as a sacrament of constitutive importance for Christian existence.

For Dodd's approach to succeed, it would be necessary to show that the inclusion of details from Jesus» life is not part of the adiaphora, i.e. not just one means among others of emphasizing the incarnation, but rather that it is indispensable for conveying the existential meaning of the kerygma, i.e. is constitutive of the kerygma as eschatological event.

This kerygmatic meaning of the «historical section» is constitutive of the Gospel as a literary form.

Liberalism's founders tended to take for granted the persistence of social norms, even as they sought to liberate individuals from those constitutive associations and the accompanying education in self - limitation that sustained these norms.

The recognition of the central and constitutive role and the necessity of the varied institutions that exist between the state and the individual has been a staple observation of thinkers from Tocqueville to contemporary thinkers on both the nominal right and nominal left, such as Bertrand de Jouvenel, Robert Nisbet, Russell Kirk, Christopher Lasch, Alasdair MacIntyre, Wilson Carey McWilliams, and Jean Bethke Elshtain.

At that moment my wife's enjoyment is central to her experience, to her self, and in so far as I make this my own I make an element of her — strictly, of the «she» of a moment ago, since my senses are not instantaneous — to become an element constitutive of me.